Meat-roasting apparatus.



H. KLEIN.

MEAT ROASTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.25, 1910.

Patented Jan. 28, 1913.

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MEAT ROASTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 25, 1am. 1M5 1 $02., Patented Jan. 28, 1913.

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Witnesses Inventor,

Attorney;

nNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMANN KLEIN, or MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

MEAT-ROASTING APPARATUS.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HERMAN'N KLEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of'Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Meat-Roasting Apparatus, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a novel and improved apparatus for' roasting meats, fowls, etc., means being pro vided for automatically rotating the meat or fowl during the process of roasting.

The invention also has for its object to 7 providean improved basting device, to-

gether with .a novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

A further objectof the. invention is to provide an apparatus of the kind stated which is portable, an oven, and a grate being' provided, and said parts being separable.

In order that'the invention may be better understood, reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,- in which drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the appa-. ratus, partly in section. Fig.2 is a cross "section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8

is a horizontal section on the line 3-3 of tatable spit. Fig. 5-is a vertical sectionon the line 5'-5 of Fig. 4.

As shown in the drawings, the apparatus consists, essentially, in an oven containing a rotatable spit and basting device, an open grate for furnishing the heat for the roasting 0 eration, and a spring motor for rot-ating te spit. The oven comprises a casing 10 supported on legs 11, and entirely open on one side so that the heat from the grate may pass into the casing, said casing,when in use, being positioned so that its open side faces the grate, and fits closely thereagainst. The side of the casing opposite the grate is provided with a door 12 to permit 5 inspection of the meat while the roasting Specification of Letters Patent.

operation is going on. The top of the casing is provided with suitable handles 13.

Extending longitudinally through the eas- Patented Jan. 28, 1913.

Application filed August 25, 1910. Serial No. 578,941.

ing 10, is a spit lt on which the meat is impaled, it being fastened thereto by a transverse pin 15 passing through an opening in the spitnntermediate the ends thereof. The spit is rotatable during the roasting operation, a motor 16 being provided for this purpose. The motor is of the ordinary spring type, and is fitted with two different speed gears, and also with a speed regulator and an automatic alarm in case it becomes unwound. Inasmuch as such a motor is common and no claim is made for the same, a detailed description thereof is deemed unnecessary. One end of the spit carries a suitable coupling 17 for connection with the motor. A stand 18 supports the motor, the

At 21 is indicated a scoop for catchingthe.

juice or gravy running from the meat during the roasting operation, said scoop being located below the spit 1 1. The bottom of the casing 10 is provided with a suitable outlet 22 through which any gravy or juice dropping into the casing, may be removed. The outlet-is provided with a suitable closure 23. The scoop 21 is supported by curved arms 24 and 25 respectively, secured to the ends thereof, and extending in the direction of the end walls of the casing, the scoop being thus mounted in the casing so as to extend longitudinally with respect thereto.

The extremity of the arm 24 is formed with an enlargement 26 which is circular, and is mounted in an opening in theend wall ofpasses. The enlargement 26 extends through the opening in the end wall of the casing,

to the outside thereof, and is fitted on the outside with a disk 28 to which is attached a handle 29. The disk has an opening 30 through which the end of the spit also passes. The other end of the spit passes through an opening 31 made in the corresponding end wall of the casing 10, from which opening a slot 32 extends to the open side of the casing. On the outside of this end wall of the casing is secured a strip 33 surrounding the opening 31, to provide an additional bearing support for the end of the spit. This strip does not extend across the slot 32, so that a free passage-way is had from the open side of the casing to the opening 31 by means of said slot. The extremity of the arm 25 is formed with a circular enlargement 34 which is supported within an annular shoulder 35 surrounding the opening 31 on the inside of the casing. The enlargement 34 is cut open and has an eye 36 through which the end of the spit loosely passes. I

In operation, the spit is removed from the casing by being moved in the direction of its length until one of its ends is withdrawn from the openings 27 and 30, after which the other end of the spit is moved out of the opening 31 by the way of the slot 32. The arm 25 is sufiiciently resilient so that it may be sprung to pass out of the casing. The meat, fowl, or other article to be roasted is now impaled on the spit, and

the latter is returned to the casing by a reversal of the herein described operation. The meat is held in place on the spit by sticking the pin 15 through the meat and the opening in the spit. The spit is now coupled to the motor 16, whereupon the meat is automatically rotated. The juice and gravy dropping ofi the same is caught in the scoop 21, and at suitable intervals, said pan will be swung through the arc of a circle by means of the handle 29, so as to come into position above the meat, whereupon the juice and gravy are' poured over the same. The meat may be thus'basted until it is done. The progress of the roasting operation may be observed by opening the door;

12, the latter being provldedwith a suitable catch 37 for holding it closed. The scoop operates independently ofthe spit, and does not rotate therewith, the spit rotating'automatically, whereas the scoop is rotated manually. V

The ate is indicated at 38, it mounte in a casing 39 mounted on legs 40. The casing 39 is open on one side, and when in use, this open side will be placed against the open side of the casing 10. Across the open side of thecasing 39 extend fender bars 41 for preventing the fuel from droppinng into the casing 10. The "fuel employed wi usually be charcoaL- The rear Wall of the casing 39 is formed with two depressions 42- as shown in Fig. 3, and on the top which may be employed forroasting Potatoes, etc. This oven is provided with a hinged door 44 provided with a suitable locking .device 45 for holding the same closed. The bottom of the oven 43' has an opening 46 into the casing 39, and to the ends of the oven are attached handles 47 to facilitate the carrying about of the grate casing.

By the apparatus herein described, meats, fowls, etc., can be quickly and economically roasted, and as the apparatus is portable, it may be stored away when not in use. Inasmuch as the oven and the heating device thereof are separable, all the parts are readily accessible, and they will also take up less room when stored away. What is claimed is:

1. An oven having openings in its ends,

one of said openings havlng an annular shoulder arranged therearound, and a gravy receiving scoop suspended within said oven and provided with arms having circular enlargements, one of said enlargements being received and rotatable within one of said openings, said enlargement having fixed thereto a disk, in turn, provided with a manually operated member, by means of which and said circular enlargements together with said arms, said scoop may be rotated, the opposite enlargement being rotatable within said annular shoulder.

2. An oven having openings in its ends,

one of said openings having an annular.

shoulder arranged therearound, agravyreceiving scoop suspended within said oven and provided with arms having circular enlargements, one of said enlargements being received and rotatable within one of said openings, said enlargement having fixed thereto a disk provided in turn with an eye and with a manually operated member, by means of which and said circular enlargements, together with said arms, said scoop may be rotated, the opposite enlargement being rotatable upon said circular shoulder, and arspit arranged within said oven, the ends of which spit are received by said openings and said'circular enlargements, disk and shoulder, and means for actuating said spit.

3. An oven of the type described having openings in its end-portions, one of said end-portions having an annular shoulder upon its inner surface and an annular hearing upon its outer end face, said shoulder and bearing surrounding one of said endopenings, a gravy-receiving scoop suspended within said oven and having suspending arms provided with circular enlargements end-openings, said disk having fixed to it a In testimony that I claim the foregoing as manually actuated member, a spit arranged my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature 10 Within said oven and having its ends exin the presence of tvro witnesses.

tending through the enlargements of said v scoop-suspending arms and said end-open- HERMANN KLEIN ings, and bearin in one of said scoop-sus- Witnesses: pending arms an said annular bearing, and HERMANN Pm'rscH,

means for actuating said spit. I H. L. GRJEB. 

